Scores of medical graduates with bursaries, who have still not been placed at state hospitals, cannot do the required community service and are worried about having to repay their bursaries if they work elsewhere, have been released from their contracts by the Gauteng Health Department, allowing them to seek employment in the private sector.
Deputy director-general for corporate services at the department Basani Baloyi admitted that out of a group of 60, most have not been placed, and due to budgetary constraints, could not be accommodated at state facilities, reports EWN.
"We have said if we cannot place them, they are released…we are not even going to demand the money from them. If they come to us and say ‘I have been appointed at Milpark Private Hospital’, we’ll be happy because they’ll still be saving the country.”
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